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Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)

A CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) certificate is awarded to doctors who have completed a full PMETB GP approved training programme and have been assessed under Article 10 of the General and Specialist Medical Practice (education and qualifications) order. To determine whether you can apply via this route please read the Current GP CCT guidance.

All new GP trainees should register with the RCGP at the beginning of their training programme.

In addition to this, any existing GP trainees (e.g those on a standard programme, or ST2s/ST3s) also need to register with the RCGP as soon as possible in order to document posts undertaken after 31st July 2007 on an ePortfolio.

The exception to this process above will be GP trainees who are completing Summative Assessment (SA) and who will not be undertaking Workplace- Based Assessment. These trainees should register by completing a registration form and submitting it to the RCGP's Certification Unit together with a copy of your current annual General Medical Council registration certificate (GMC) and a fee of £350. The fee should be paid by a cheque made payable to the Royal College of General Practitioners. This is a one-off payment which will cover all submissions to the Certification Unit.

Any trainees that have registered with the RCGP Certification Unit in the past and are completing MRCGP will need to upgrade their registration online to obtain access to the ePortfolio.

If you are completing SA or MRCGP, training which begun prior to August 2007 should be documented on VTR or RITA/VTR forms and submitted to the Certification Unit. Specialty training begun during or after August 2007 will be documented using the ePortfolio. The only exception to this will be trainees who are undertaking Summative Assessment (SA) and who will not have an ePortfolio. These trainees should continue to use VTR forms and submit them to the Certification Unit. Please see our CCT Application Checklist.

All GP trainees who are applying for a CCT will also need to apply to PMETB. The Certification Unit will send you a PMETB GP CCT application form in your final 6 months of training, which must be forwarded to PMETB along with the relevant documentation and their fee. Please note that the fee that PMETB charges for CCT's will be increasing in April 2009. Please see the PMETB website for further details.

If you are completing SA, you should submit your final VTR1 form to the Certification Unit with a copy of your current GMC registration certificate when you are in the final 6 weeks of your training programme. The VTR1 form will not be accepted if it has been signed by your trainer earlier than 6 weeks prior to your completion date.

If you are completing MRCGP you will not require a VTR1 form for your final post, your deanery will complete a final ARCP form to confirm the satisfactory completion of your training programme.

When the Certification Unit receives your final VTR or ARCP form it will check whether your application is complete, whether MRCGP or Summative Assessment has been satisfactorily completed and whether your training complies with Article 10 of the Regulations. It will then recommend to PMETB whether or not you are eligible for a CCT;  this process takes 15 working days. PMETB will marry this recommendation up with your application to them and, if appropriate, will then issue a certificate to you. If PMETB decide that you are not eligible for a certificate they will communicate this to you in writing with reasons and a recommendation of the further training that you will need to undertake.